Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.
Stan Kelly-Bootle
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
Robert X. Cringely
All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer.
IBM Manual, 1925
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
Alan Kay
Talk is cheap, show me the code!
Linus Torvalds
Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.
Douglas Crockford
There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.
Bjarne Stroustrup
Think twice before you start programming or you will program twice before you start thinking.
Anonymous
If it doesn't work, it doesn't matter how fast it doesn't work.
Ravera's observation on premature optimization
One programmer can do in one day what two programmers can do in two.
Anonymous